And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Ver. 9. Every tree, &c.] The Hebrews think that the world was created in September, because the fruits were then ripe and ready. Eπεχω
The tree of life also.] A symbolical tree; by the eating of the fruit whereof Adam should have had Gaius's prosperity, "his body should have been in health, as his soul prospered," 3Jn 1:2
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.] So called, not because itself either knew, or could cause man to know; but from the event; God forewarning our first parents, that they should know by woeful experience, unless they abstained, what was the worth of good, by the want of it; and what the presence of evil, by the sense of it. In like sort the waters of Meribah, and Kibroth Hattaavah, or the graves of lust, received their names from that which happened in those places.